Nihlathak's Tomb Viper Damage Question and related

[yxx]

I am sure it has discussed somewhere, a link is appreciated.
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I know this is a bug, I heard two answers but not sure which one is right, maybe both wrong

1. The poison damage is actually physical damage, so you stay in the cloud, you loss your life really quick because your physical resistance is very low compare with poison resistance

2. Viper cause both physical and posion damage. The physical damge lasts long time same as the poison damage.


BTW, how to calcualte a char's physical resistance?

[yxx]

BTW, i heard single players don't have this bug, is this true?

[Phesto]

BTW, i heard single players don't have this bug, is this true?

no, it's not true.

[AnimeCraze]

Both are not quite right. As long as you move inside the cloud, you get reinfected by the poison damage (normal). However, the check is bugged and does physical damage (NOT normal). ie. As long as you move in the cloud, you get damaged frame by frame.

Your physical resistance is given by amount of physical damage reduction that you have, minimum at 0% and capped at 50%.

[krischan]

Many elemental attacks (if not all) from monsters also inflict a part of the physical part of their regular melee attack. That's why special abilities like mana steal, amp or spectral hit are dealt via these attacks as well BTW.